Word: abhors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claims on Lundy. For one thing, argued the council, if ever a crime were committed on the island, the jurisdiction of the Devon police might "be called into question. It would therefore be desirable to tidy up this point." This sort of tidying up is just what the Lundyites abhor; it was even worse than that dark episode back...
...Abhorred Cutaways. The next day King Baudouin again broke with the past by holding Belgium's first royal press conference. As more than 100 reporters munched cookies, sipped champagne, and smoked the King's own crested cigarettes, Baudouin moved affably among them, freely offered heretical opinions and answered questions. Of U.S. newsmen he said: "They establish instant, familiar relations with their important guests, which is. you will admit, far different from our traditions, so I had to adapt myself quickly." Were Americans materialistic? "I found them idealistic." What about court protocol? 'I abhor cutaways. They should...
Celeste is trying to arouse the voters on the issues of labor racketeering and civil rights. "I abhor elected officials who give lip service to law and order and then conspire with the labor barons to enhance their political futures," he told a Christian Science Monitor reporter recently...
...remember deploring the publicity given the "misguided" members of Truman's Administration, and cannot help but abhor the press's full coverage of the "dirty" side of any administration. Is it not possible to criticize in a constructive manner so that our neighbors elsewhere in the world will not think we're juvenile and petty...
Careful Guards. Both Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein abhor the other's ideas ("I don't go in for all that trash," says Miss Arden of one of her rival's favorite ingredients), but show a fondness for each other's personnel. Arden's raids on Rubinstein reached a climax in 1938, when she hired away Rubinstein's sales manager at a fancy salary. But Rubinstein struck back a year later by hiring as her vice president none other than Elizabeth Arden's ex-husband, Thomas J. Lewis, who had been general manager...